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Image detail: Sarah McCullough, St John Bosco College, Fragility of Life,
2023, Painting. Photography: NSW Department of Education, Arts Unit
Featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the art-making component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in 2023, ARTEXPRESS 2024 provides insight into students’ creativity and the issues important to them.
Image left, Heather Dorrough, Self Portrait No 6 (Buzzflies) 1982 textile, dye, photographic silk screen printing, machine embroidery, 212 x 54 cm, right: Kate Dorrough, The Enduring Echo 2019 stoneware ceramic with glaze, 36 x 49 x 20 cm. Photography: Jenni Carter
This exhibition is a conversation across time. The multi-disciplinary works of mother and daughter Heather and Kate Dorrough explore the nexus between the arts and crafts movements, female creative lineage, body and landscape, river and fertility, and environmental issues and activism.
Winner Archibald Prize 2023, Julia Gutman 'Head in the sky, feet on the ground',(detail) oil, found textiles and embroidery on canvas, 198 x 213.6 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter
Sitter: Montaigne
The annual Archibald Prize is eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. Judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW, the prize is awarded to the best portrait painting. Since 1921, it has highlighted figures from all walks of life, from famous faces to local heroes, reflecting back to us the stories of our times.